Water-gas apparatus.



R. M. SBARLE. WATER GAS MPAHATUS. APPLIOATIGN EILED APR.3,1906.

Paened Sepia. 6, 19M.

t between the spaces 4 and ROBERT M. SEARLE, OF MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK.

WATER-GAS APPARATUS.

u". Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 53, 1910.

App1ication led April 3, 1906. Serial No. 309,630.

To all whom it my concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT M. SEaizLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at .Mount Vernon, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 1n Vater-Gas Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

Objects of the present invention are to effect economy in the use of oil and fuel; to maintain during the run or gas making process a more uniform temperature in the carbureter than was hitherto possible; to improve the generation of oil gases and their commingling with the water gases; and by mechanically simple changes, adapt a water gas set to accomplish the objects named as well as others hereinafter set forth.

The invention comprises the improvements to be presently described and finally claimed.

The accompanying drawings illustrate, partly in section and partly in elevation, the invention in application to an ordinary watergas set.

In the drawing, 1 is the generator, 2 a chamber in ordinary water gas practice called the carbureter, and 3,. the superheater. The chamber 2, and superheater shells contain checkerbrick, beneath which are spaces 4 and 5. There is a connection G, Between the top of the generator 1, Vand the top of the chamber Q, ithere is a connection 7, provided with valves S and 9. The connection 10, from the bottom of the generator may communicate by way of the valve 11, with the pipe or/conduit 12, that dischargesfinto the connection 7, between the valves 8 and 9. So much of the apparatus as has been described is in use and is well understodd.

To practice my invention I provide a connection as 13, having a valve 14, from the pipe or conduitY 12, to the space fi, beneath and on the outlet side of the checkerbrick of the chamber 2, and I operate this connection 18, in conjunction with the rest of the apparatus in a manner to be presently described, bearing in mind that in showing the connection 13, and describing it along'with an ordinary Water gas set, I am describing invention. In use the blow is conducted as heretofore, so that the interior of the apparatus including the checkerbrick is heated. During the run the water gas or gases by-pass the checkerbrick of the chamber 2, and draw the oil frases generated and ixed in the chamberl 2, from its checker-brick and along with them, and the mixture traverses the checkerbrick of the superheater 3, so that the water gases protect the oil gases in their travel therethrough. Since the water gases do not traverse the checkerbrick of the chamber 2, the sameisnot cooled thereby alid its temperature consequently remains more uniform during the run more the movement of the oil gases through the checkerbrick of the carbureter is comparatively slow, so that they remain for a comparatively long time in contact therewith and are therefore more perfectly made. These operations may be accomplished in the apparatus shown in the drawings by closing the valve 9, and introducing the waterv gases through the connection 13, into the space 4, and the velocity of the water Agases vinduces descent of the oil gases throughthe checkerbrick. The mixture of gases passes by way of (i, to the superheater through the checkerbrick of which it passes in the usual manner, the water gas protecting the oil gas in its passage. Toward the end of the run the valve 14, maybe closed and the valve 9, opened so as topass the generator or water gases through the checkerbrick of the carburet'er in order to remove and ii'tilize whatever oil gas may be contained therein.

It is not my` intention to have this specication construed as necessarily limiting my claim to the precise form 'of apparatus shown, but

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

Thel combination with the generator and the checkerbrick lined superheater of a water gas set of a chamber containing checkerbrick beneath which there is space and said checkerbrick adapted for making oil vapors into fixed oil gas, a gas connection from the top of the generator-to said chamber above the-best but not the only embodiment of my said checkerbrick for blastgases, a gas con- Further- 

